Aspartame tastes OK and is a known carcinogen. I hear splenda is less toxic, but it does not taste like sugar. More of a fucked up acidic chemical flavor that isn't even sweet. Then again, I know some people who say it tastes just like the real thing and put it in everything so maybe my sense of taste is just weird.

The only sweetener I ever use is honey and only in my tea once in a great while. I agree with the above poster. Why the heck do you need a sweetener? Use unsweetened fruit juices and honey and start drinking water and other stuff. If you are drinking soda of any kind then I wouldn't even worry about the diabetes. You're killing yourself already anyhow.

Okay, let me rephrase the question for all the health food store people and the just drink water crowd:

Which artificial sweetener is the least harmful?

I do not want to drink water.I do not want to stir in my own powder/liquid/stuff.I DO want to crack open a bottle and pour it down throat

The very nature of the inquiry implies that I already understand that it's all bad, so please don't repeat that mantra here as if it were a direct answer to my direct question. Go back to the tree and continue to hug it.

Let me put it this way:

Splenda, Nutri-Sweet, Sweet N Low or just die from the sugar already?

Thank you.

Please drive thru.

I'm not too fond of Signatures. Why would I want to end every post the same way?

Okay, let me rephrase the question for all the health food store people and the just drink water crowd:

Which artificial sweetener is the least harmful?

I do not want to drink water.I do not want to stir in my own powder/liquid/stuff.I DO want to crack open a bottle and pour it down throat

The very nature of the inquiry implies that I already understand that it's all bad, so please don't repeat that mantra here as if it were a direct answer to my direct question. Go back to the tree and continue to hug it.

Let me put it this way:

Splenda, Nutri-Sweet, Sweet N Low or just die from the sugar already?

Thank you.

Please drive thru.

Quoting: Greg_B.

Since this is all opinion anyway with the psuedoscience crowd, I'll say sucralose.

All of these sugar substitutes have been tested to death (literally) on thousands of unfortunate rodents. No cancer.

"The non-nutritive sweeteners acesulfame-K, aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin and sucralose were tested for DNA damaging activity in the rat hepatocyte/DNA repair assay. Using hepatocytes from F344 and Sprague-Dawley male rats, all were inactive despite strong responses for the positive control, 2-aminofluorene."

heres another one (I'm sure you're bored to tears at this point):

Neurotoxicity studies on sucralose and its hydrolysis products with special reference to histopathologic and ultrastructural changes.

Food Chem Toxicol. 2000;38 Suppl 2:S7-17

"Comparative neuropathological studies of 1,6-dichloro-1, 6-dideoxy-beta-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-alpha-D-gal​actopyra noside (sucralose), an equimolar mixture of 1,6-dichloro-1, 6-dideoxyfructose (1,6-DCF) and 4-chloro-4-deoxygalactose (4-CG), the hydrolysis products of sucralose, and 6-chloro-6-deoxyglucose (6-CG) were conducted in male and female mice and male marmoset monkeys, focusing on morphological changes in the central nervous system. 6-Chloro-6-deoxyglucose, previously reported to produce neurotoxic effects, served as the positive control and was administered by gavage at a daily dose of 500mg/kg. Sucralose and the sucralose hydrolysis products (sucralose-HP) were similarly administered to mice and marmosets at doses of up to 1000mg/kg for 21 and 28 days, respectively. No changes were detected in the central nervous system by light or electron microscopy in either of the species that received sucralose or its hydrolysis products. 6-Chloro-6-deoxyglucose, in contrast, induced symmetrical lesions in the deep nuclei of the cerebellum, brain stem and spinal cord with definitive neurological signs of CNS involvement."

However, there are reports of Sucralose causing/exacerbating migranes.

With the exception of Saccharin and Aspartame*, all other sugar substitutes have had inadequate or downright minimal research.

*hundreds of research studies on the effects of Aspartame have been suppressed and are not available to the public. All showed serious health effects... Aspartame was once listed on the Dept. of Defense list of CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS for it effects on the central nervous system.

This action and the FDA approval of Aspartame was one of the first orders of business of the Reagan administration and the second Rumsfeld-Cheney assault on Americans.

Okay, let me rephrase the question for all the health food store people and the just drink water crowd:

Which artificial sweetener is the least harmful?

I do not want to drink water.I do not want to stir in my own powder/liquid/stuff.I DO want to crack open a bottle and pour it down throat

The very nature of the inquiry implies that I already understand that it's all bad, so please don't repeat that mantra here as if it were a direct answer to my direct question. Go back to the tree and continue to hug it.

Let me put it this way:

Splenda, Nutri-Sweet, Sweet N Low or just die from the sugar already?

Thank you.

Please drive thru.

Quoting: Greg_B.

in that case,table sugar is the least lethal artificial sweetener of the choices provided.

why don't those who have high glycemic index or whatever eat protien bars and stuff like that? i bought this box of xyience bars the other day. There is not much taste but eat beats nothing or crappy food.

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It's the non-stop consumption of fructose in soft drinks that's leading me to high cholesterol and tryglcerides which comes from problems developing in the liver that are normally associated with alcoholics (I don't drink.)

So, you care enough to drink the least toxic, but not enough to cut out the toxicity altogether?

To get healthy and stay healthy at this point in your life, I suggest a complete detoxing/cleansing for starters... Your physical condition is probably so toxic that you are too insane to make up your mind at this point. Cleanse first and call us in a couple of weeks.

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